• Raghuvendra Kumar

Abstract Slums are a global phenomenon which tends to deteriorate the urban environment. Migration to urban areas is a regular phenomenon which created population pressure over the cities. Increasing number of people rush to city’s slums creates urban crisis. Urban slums are the shadow zones of urban existence where poverty, crime, aesthetic pollution apart from other type’s pollution, disease and deprivation co-exist. Increasing number of people in urban slums over the recent past creates extra pressure on existing urban facilities and challenge to government development activities like slum development and poverty reduction strategy. Urban slums make the condition still unfavorable for survival.

Urban Slums, urban centres

"Urban Slums: Affects on Environment ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no.76-79, May-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905G13.pdf

"Urban Slums: Affects on Environment ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 5, page no. pp76-79, May-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1905G13.pdf